So, new page is up! Spoiler Does this mean Zarei can like... temporarily en-tool an object? Or is she just buddies with a spirit that occasionally hangs out in her bag cause it's nice like that?
Spoiler I'm thinking she works with a lot of spirits rather than just using a tool. Maybe she's good at negotiating with different kinds of spirits.
Spoiler Yeah. I wonder if Isabel will end up having her as an alternate viewpoint on spirits and tools (in contrast to grampa guerra) as a growth of what Eightfold said about her subconsciously thinking of spirits as not being people./SPOILER]
I'm working on chapter 4! My computer with photoshop is in an inconvenient location now tho so I have to actually get up and go in there with the intent of making them instead of "eh, bored, let's crop some shit" also my pet theory is that everyone needs therapy forever (and that Spoiler Boss Lady is Max's mom)
Spoiler: Today's comic So it looks like Zarei's got Patchwork in her sunglasses, Toolbox who's in her bag at least part time, Ghost Train who's healing in the lamp, and maybe the giant doctopus like creature? if it's not something created by one of the others also why will no one just talk to each other?!
my pet theory is that his tool's spirit is just too big for the bat and spilled over into him when he grabbed it. like its mind/personality/whatever is in him and the giant worm guy is in the bat.
My guess is that the possessing spirit (Broken Evil Riddle God) and Scrapdragon are different entities, and BERG was the big scary spirit Spender supposedly defeated, which is why it's broken. And Spender's possessing spirit is probably another part (most likely the core) of it.
Ah, I figured that 'the strongest' was what's currently possessing SPENDER. eta: actually, assuming that Spender fought 'the strongest' in Mayview it'd be really hard for that spirit to get to Max, what with the barrier and all.
^Yeah, my theory is that the thing possessing Max is another fragment of it. Since we know whatever that is is in pieces ("I didn't end up with the sense of humor."). My guess has been that Max got possessed at some point during the comic timeframe- there's at least one set of shenanigans we didn't see (whatever it was where he found out about the magnet powers). That said, I think it's at least equally likely that BERG hitched a ride with Max to get through the barrier, and that's what made Max become a spectral. Could be that it's trying to get to other parts of itself so it can reform or something.
I'd assumed that Max was possessed very quickly after coming to Mayview, because he was definitely emerging as a spectral before touching the bat. Isabel seems to come from a long family line and Issac is possessed as well, and the only other emergent we've see in Johnny (again! possession) which makes me think that possession is probably the primary way people get exposed to the spiritual and learn how to manipulate it. (Who even knows what's up with Ed.) I like the theory that it's a fragment of whatever Spender is holding onto so very tightly though. That would make a looooot of sense.
Zack has said there's a reason Isabel and her grandpa have the same energy color and it's not genetics, so I'd bet she got given a tool or possessed by a spirit he'd previously had to make her awaken.
I think that your color is inherent, not just related to the color of the first spirity thing you run into. Also wasn't Eightfold Isabel's first spirit? She could make constructs before that.
I don't think we know for sure what causes color- that was just my guess at the most likely explanation for "same color, there's a reason, not genetics." I'd have to go back and reread the Eightfold backstory bit to see if she says Eightfold was her first spirit, but I didn't think she did?
